Fundraising / Spenden

We fund everything on this trip ourselves:

travel

insurance

rent

food

clothes

beer

Right now, it costs us at least 1000 € per month to even be able to donate our skills to NGOs in Belize. While this sounds weird the first time you come across it (belive me, I didn’t want to belive it), this is the norm for skilled volunteering in our sector.

We sold all we had in Germany and tossed this on a pile together with our savings. We still came in 7.000 € short of what we needed for a year. So we started fundraising. We

baked and sold cakes and cookies

sang in the streets with a guitar

gave public presentations of our project

annoyed all our friends, family and associates

raffled off Holgers T-Shirt collection

gave away all our apartment interior in return for donations.

Before the wedding, we received 4.535 € in donations plus a few very dedicated supporters who pledged to send us money monthly for the duration of the trip. The wedding took care of the rest.

Without our families, friends and other supporters (sometimes complete strangers), this trip wouldn’t have happened. Thank you all very much for your support!

The funding for the trip is there, but we continue with our fundraising efforts. Why? Because we see a lot of problems and needs here and we want to fix them as much as possible. This may be small things like kids coming into Kerstins office and asking her for a banana because they are just so hungry. It may be more indirect costs like the cost for traveling to a remote location to supply coaching or do a workshop that wouldn’t happen otherwise because of costs.

We keep track of what is donated and guarantee it is only used on costs directly connected to our volunteer work:

travel

insurance

accommodation

food (not beer)

insurance

medical costs

Whatever is left of the donations at the end, we will donate to a charity.

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After what some may consider careers in consulting and logistics, we quit our jobs, sold our stuff and left Germany to be full-time travelers and development volunteers. This blog is about our travels, our work as volunteers and our alternative life strategies - always looking to make an impact and to find the meaning in what we do or put some into it if we can't find any.

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This website is about Kerstin & Holger Heinze - we're two yuppies from Frankfurt Germany who were so sick and tired of our corporate careers that we sold everything we owned to fund a year abroad.
We are working as volunteers, first skilled in our fields of expertise and then unskilled for grass roots charities.
At the same time, we're on our honey moon doing what we love: Travel, meet new people, go new places.
Right now we are in Belize, Central America working for the Red Cross and the Belize Tourism Industry Association.